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Lockdown lifted at East Middle School in Aurora

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:25 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- East Middle School in Aurora was temporarily placed on lockdown Monday afternoon after a report of a firearm, according to Aurora Police.The lockdown had been lifted as of 2:17 p.m., according to police, and the scene was being cleared.Police said officers were at the school investigating the report. As of 12:44 p.m., no weapons had been found.APD told FOX31 that a student reported that another student flashed a gun in his class, and then left.Officers were still trying to locate the kid and the gun, according to police.Aurora Public Schools said that, as of 12:53 p.m., all classrooms had been cleared and no weapons had been found.

AdventHealth Porter in Denver closed after loss of heating, hot water

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:25 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- AdventHealth Porter, a hospital in Denver, announced Monday afternoon that it had temporarily suspended all services and was closed to new patients due to a lack of hot water and heat from a failed boiler.The emergency department at the hospital was also closed.The hospital, which is located in the 2500 block of South Downing Street, was in the process of rescheduling all surgeries, and procedures scheduled from Monday through Wednesday, Nov. 1. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox Local EMS agencies were working with the hospital to transport patients to nearby facilities.According to AdventHealth, the outage does not include the medical office buildings at 850 and 950 E Harvard Ave. AdventHealth said an emergency boiler was on the way and would be installed as soon as possible.The hospital was also working to determine staffing needs for the near future.

Pharmacists prescribe another round of US protests to highlight working conditions

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:25 GMT

Drugstore workers around the country started calling in sick Monday to highlight a lack of support from their employers, protest organizers said.The extent and impact of the demonstration, which is planned until Wednesday, were not clear as of Monday afternoon.Pharmacists and technicians for dozens of drugstores had called in sick as of midday, said Lannie Duong, a pharmacist who is helping to organize the protest. She said organizers estimate that “at least hundreds” of pharmacists and technicians — mostly for Walgreens and other big retailers like CVS Health — were involved.Pharmacists say they have been dealing with difficult working conditions for years. Those problems worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, when stores saw waves of people seeking tests, vaccines and treatments.Walgreens spokesman Fraser Engerman said Monday afternoon that the company had to close three of its nearly 9,000 U.S. locations “due to workforce disruptions.”CVS Health spokeswoman Amy Thibault said the ...

911 calls released after small plane crash lands near North Perry Airport

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:25 GMT

Urgent 911 calls painted a vivid picture of the moments following a small plane crash near North Perry Airport last Thursday afternoon, as witnesses rushed to help the pilot, who miraculously survived the crash.The 911 calls for help came in quickly.“Hi, I just saw a plane crash,” one caller said. Another caller reported, “I believe a plane just crashed down right now; I just drove past it.”The pilot, who was the sole occupant of the aircraft, informed investigators that he was practicing landing and taking off. When he attempted to switch fuel tanks, the plane lost power, leading to a crash landing just west of 72nd Avenue.The crash site happened to be mere feet from the North Perry Airport’s fire station. Witnesses in the area quickly rushed to aid the pilot while on the phone with emergency dispatch.“Can you get out? Yeah, he’s trying to get out,” one caller said.One witnesses later revealed that they had managed to pull the pilot ...

South Florida caregiver charged with manslaughter in 80-year-old’s death

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:25 GMT

Police said a caregiver was arrested in connection to the death of an 80-year-old man in southwest Miami-Dade.According to the arrest report, on Sunday, officers from the Miami-Dade Police Department and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to a call regarding a battery with injuries at the residence, located at 15001 Leisure Drive. Upon arrival, they discovered the victim, an 80-year-old man, unresponsive in a bedroom and pronounced him deceased at the scene.Police said Joan Ramos, the victim’s caregiver, told investigators that he heard a scream from the victim’s bedroom around 1:00 a.m. and went to check on him. According to Ramos, the victim became combative and scratched him. Ramos said he attempted to restrain the victim, resulting in both of them falling and hitting a nightstand in the bedroom.Ramos stated that he waited approximately eight hours to contact emergency services due to his state of shock and realization of his actions. He also allegedly disclosed that &#...

Student threat prompts lockdown at Boyd Anderson High School

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:25 GMT

Boyd Anderson High School was placed on lockdown following reports of a student potentially armed with a weapon on campus. Shortly before 3 p.m., Broward County Regional Communications received a report of a possible gun on campus at Boyd Anderson High School. In response, Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputies, along with detectives from BSO’s Threat Management unit, responded to the scene located at 3050 NW 41st Street in Lauderdale Lakes. According to officials with Broward County Public Schools, the situation initially began as a student threatening to harm themselves while on school grounds. In an abundance of caution, the school was placed on lockdown while detectives from BSO’s Threat Management unit conducted their investigation.Currently, BSO deputies are working to clear the campus of any potential threats. No further details have been released at this time. Authorities are actively investigating the situation.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for...

Shrewsbury High School Robotics Team mentor faces child pornography charges

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:25 GMT

A mentor for Shrewsbury High School was charged Monday in connection to child pornography charges, federal prosecutors announced.Brian Lingard, 60, of Shrewsbury, allegedly possessed and transported child pornography when earlier this month, he flew from Paris to Boston. Investigators found child sexual abuse material on his phone, including 23 images depicting children under the age of 10, prosecutors allege. Investigators also said they found videos of girls as young as 3 years old.His phone also contained multiple pictures taken surreptitiously of fully clothed girls’ buttocks in what appears to be a school setting, allegedly in Shrewsbury High School according to GPS data. Lingard was the mentor for the Shrewsbury High School Robotics Team as a volunteer since 2013, the superintendent of Shrewsbury Public Schools said in a statement. Superintendent Joe Sawyer also noted that Lingard passed all background checks and never accessed the school’s technology system. “While the U...

Victim identified in deadly Worcester State University shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:25 GMT

Officials on Monday publicly identified the 19-year-old killed in a shooting on the campus of Worcester State University over the weekend.The shooting happened at 2:30 a.m. Saturday and initially prompted a shelter-in-place order. Officials said Worcester State University Police soon responded to the shooting scene where they found two men with gunshot wounds.Officials said a fight led to the shooting. A 19-year-old now identified Randy Armando Melendez Jr. of Southbridge later died of his injuries at a local hospital. A 21-year-old man wounded in the shooting appeared to have non-life-threatening injuries as of Sunday afternoon, according to the Worcester County District Attorney’s office.Melendez Jr.’s stepmother Sashira Belfort shared a statement on Monday, saying “Our son was a great kid – hardworking – who loved being around friends and family.”“He loved spending his spare time at home and with his family,” Belfort continued. “We are going through the hardest time o...

Not So Spooky Halloween

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:25 GMT

Mother Nature had a case of the Mondays today with cloudy skies, rain, and cooler temperatures to kick off the week. While the sun may come back tomorrow, temperatures will head the other direction! The rain we had today was all thanks to a cold front and man, it’s a potent one! While we’ll break into almost clear blue skies tomorrow, temperatures will struggle to make it to 50°!The good news for the kiddos trick-or-treating tomorrow is you won’t have to worry about any rain gear! That said it will be chilly, so you’ll probably want a layer or two underneath the costumes. With clear skies and light wind, temperatures will fall pretty quickly. The light wind will be nice so there’s not a wind chill, but clear skies and light wind are what we need for temperatures to drop like a rock. And when you only start in the 40s, it’ll be a quick drop to the 30s tomorrow evening.Whether it’s the cold rain today, or the the chilly temperatures tomorrow, ...

Boston braces for ‘new reality’ of more serious flooding

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:21:25 GMT

Following a summer of flood events that rocked the East Coast, Boston needs to take concrete steps towards flood prevention and mitigation, advocates say.New approaches could include: requiring that landlords inform potential renters of a property’s flooding history, piloting a program to insure low-income families, capturing federal money to retrofit buildings to reduce risk and re-imagining the Interstate 90 redevelopment through Allston/Brighton.“The reality is that climate change is here now, we don’t have any doubt about that,” said Boston City Councilor Liz Breadon, who co-sponsored a public hearing Monday on stormwater management and flood hazard mitigation. “This is our new reality — increased frequency of intense rainstorms. In Allston/Brighton, heavy rainfall flooded Commonwealth Ave., it shut down the T and we had cases of below-grade apartments flooding.”The state’s most recent Statewide Hazard Mitigation and Climate Adapta...